On Kids & Coal Miners

This Making Connections News edition of WMMT's Mountain Talk shares some good news from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Appalachia for Letcher County kids and their parents. Then Conan Cao, summer intern at Appalachian Citizens Law Center, describes the prevalence of black lung disease in his native China and the US, and offers some thoughts on the hopes of local folks in both countries. The episode ends with Hazel Dickens’ powerful rendition of her song “Black Lung.” Listen to Mountain Talk on WMMT on Thursday at 6 pm, with encore broadcasts Mon at 10 am and Tuesday at 11 am.

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On Kids & Coal Miners is an episode from Making Connections News by Making Connections News.

This episode is 00:58:30 long.

This episode was published on Jan 22, 2025.

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